Naturally rebalance your investment portfolio so you aren't too heavily weighted in Real Estate. 2.

If you can get one for a decent price, then FSBO just the trailer to the tenant to where they pay off the trailer in 5 yrs and then just pay you lot rent...no maintenance, no upkeep, cash cow.

It is one of those sort of random stats that could carry some weight. 

  - removing trash and regular upkeep of the building- basic handyman skills and customer service (responsible for outsourcing more complex repairs)- dealing with contractors and giving access to the building or apartments (roofer, brick repair, painter for fascia and fire escape)- preparation and apartment showings for new tenants - major repairs such as painting an apartment to make it tenant ready will be extra compensation. 

But I think I would weigh the risk/benefit ratio against the more frivolous scenarios and take the catastrophic scenarios out of the equation, or at least give them very little weight.

Instead of your business putting all of the profits back into itself, it needs to start paying you for your time, which in turn goes into the household to take some of the weight off of her. 

I wouldn't have to pay the sign upkeep, the insurance, or find the renters - the billboard company does all that.

So like all these markets  LOCATION is paramount you simply cant buy based on return numbers or price points.. the take away here is buy the best you can not the houses that look best on paper.. a 5 or 6% return that you actually get on these rentals over time without major issues with tenants needs to be weighted with the " My Criteria says I need to make 9 to 12% return) which turns out many times like what your describing above basically no return or negative returns with little hope to right the ship for many years to come. 

Eyes and Ears, upkeep.

We otherwise had every element for one: record snowfall, our negligence/naiveness, roof on a house built in the 50's not strong enough to sustain weight from so much snowfall in such a short period of time.